Marvel POP! Updates Thread 2018 (Updated July 20th)

[melindamay]

San Diego Hot Topic has Agent Carter in.

I am so jealous! My Hot Topic's Marvel selection (which used to be pretty decent) has been stuck at a few Storm/Nebula/Thanos/Exclusive Hulks and a single Hawkeye for over a month .

[PopMikey]

Agent Carter looks so good. So happy they made her. Probably the best female Marvel character they've made so far, design-wise.

[fistigons]

Agent Carter looks so good. So happy they made her. Probably the best female Marvel character they've made so far, design-wise.

Until Lady Thor appears.

[stichem05]

I was framing up my TV and Movie poster and was wondering when we would see a Marvel one. I'm guessing that there is just not enough made since each poster shows about 200 pops.

[nico247]

Love the Agent Carter Pop!

[Jeggy]

Just curious who here has the Japan Metallic exclusive for the Amazing Spider-Man 2 premiere. Any info on how many there were? I'm so mad that I didn't grab that months and months ago. Now it has become a grail, not to mention rising in price, and it's driving me nuts.

I've seen that it was only for the screening of the premiere in Japan for a specific theater which would make it ridiculously low on the count, but I've also seen it mentioned that it was limited to 1000 which I'm sure is wrong. So basically from what I can tell....who knows?

This is one of my grails and actually the only Pop I'm missing to have a complete Marvel collection. I'm missing a few boxes with a specific sticker, but as for having that actual physical Pop this is the only one. One popped up on ebay the other day, but the seller wants $700 because it is also paired with the Japan Premiere Electro. It's your standard Electro just with a premiere sticker., which I also don't have. $700 is way and I mean way to much for that.

[PWN3R]

Yeah I don't feel the need to have the Metallic Japan Electro because it's identical to the HT exclusive that was in the States. The Metallic Spidey is a must because that's like a completely new figure. It's the only one I'm missing to have a complete set and it's depressing.

I saw some sold on eBay for like $150 months ago and I think that's the most I'd pay. I would love to pay less obviously .

[Coulsonsss]

Just a heads up. Went to Barnes and Noble today and found 3 Unmasked Captain America pops. I bought one since the one I ordered off EBay came mashed up, but I know for a fact that these were sold out when the Pop Cultured event happened. Maybe Barnes and Noble is getting some back in stock?

[pepsiracer24]

I feel a drought of Marvel... I need Scarlet Witch to be out already!

[operez086]

Just a heads up. Went to Barnes and Noble today and found 3 Unmasked Captain America pops. I bought one since the one I ordered off EBay came mashed up, but I know for a fact that these were sold out when the Pop Cultured event happened. Maybe Barnes and Noble is getting some back in stock?

Ooh, i hope so! I kinda want one since i missed out on him! Thanks for the heads up!

[Milla4Prez]

I found two unmasked Caps left at the B&N by the Florida Mall today. My friend bought the other one. They are still out there.

[pepsiracer24]

Pop! Home announced. October 2015 release date.

http://funko.com/blogs/news/55098563-pop-is-coming-to-the-kitchen

All Marvel so far

PopHome.jpg

[MarvelFunkoFunatic]

Pop! Home announced. October 2015 release date.

http://funko.com/blogs/news/55098563-pop-is-coming-to-the-kitchen

All Marvel so far

PopHome.jpg

Yeah those are cool, probably going to pick up the mugs.

[MarvelFunkoFunatic]

I feel a drought of Marvel... I need Scarlet Witch to be out already!

Went to game stop the other day asking about this pop. They said it won't be out until August 16.

[BillyLouis]

Pop! Home announced. October 2015 release date.

http://funko.com/blogs/news/55098563-pop-is-coming-to-the-kitchen

All Marvel so far

PopHome.jpg

Those are pretty nice, I collect coffee cups here and there so I'll probably snag a couple of them.


Also, I wonder if we'll see any of the POP! Home stuff in the Collectors Corp boxes down the road.

[pepsiracer24]

I feel a drought of Marvel... I need Scarlet Witch to be out already!

Went to game stop the other day asking about this pop. They said it won't be out until August 16.

Ya I still truck EE release dates more - They are still at September.

[Jango_Fresh]

I feel a drought of Marvel... I need Scarlet Witch to be out already!

I just got Agent Carter, and Black Widow was month before. Plus SW box coming in a few weeks!

Do wish we had more comic versions coming.

[schmidthappens27]

Pop! Home announced. October 2015 release date.

http://funko.com/blogs/news/55098563-pop-is-coming-to-the-kitchen

All Marvel so far

PopHome.jpg

Need those mugs! =)

[doao]

Just thought I'd say that rumor is Fox and Marvel are working on a deal that would send the Fantastic Four back to Marvel and in return let Fox have the television rights to do an X-Men show.

Hope this is true and hopefully that could lead to some comic versions of some Fantastic Four Pops! Or a God Doom for Secret Wars.

[wraithkelso]

Just thought I'd say that rumor is Fox and Marvel are working on a deal that would send the Fantastic Four back to Marvel and in return let Fox have the television rights to do an X-Men show.

Hope this is true and hopefully that could lead to some comic versions of some Fantastic Four Pops! Or a God Doom for Secret Wars.

haha well considering the fact that this fantastic 4 movie has one of the lowest Rotten Tomatoes scores (currently at 12%) of the year it wouldn't surprise me

[MarvelFunkoFunatic]

Hope it is true. We can finally get a true Fantastic Four movie. Can you imagine having Dr. Doom in the MCU.

[Jeggy]

I lost interest in the home stuff, but I'll say that stuff looks nice. Dammit now I want all of it.

[doao]

Hope it is true. We can finally get a true Fantastic Four movie. Can you imagine having Dr. Doom in the MCU.

This is all I want. That and I might sound ridiculous but if I had to make the choice of either a new F4 reboot or Galactus even making a 2 second cameo in GOTG 2, I'm picking Galactus.

[BeefyPenguin]

X men show!! That would be awesome

[Tdogg2k8]

Hope it is true. We can finally get a true Fantastic Four movie. Can you imagine having Dr. Doom in the MCU.

Theres no need for another F4 movie to be honest, it's not a very good adaptable story solo.
Marvel wouldn't do much better with it than fox has to be honest throwing in other heroes would make it bearable.

Its only good for marvel to get it for reed and sue to pop up in avenger related issues.
Storm to be on Inhumans.
Thing to be getting beat up by someone


and Doom to be God doom!

[Chuck420Taylor]

Hope it is true. We can finally get a true Fantastic Four movie. Can you imagine having Dr. Doom in the MCU.

Not really he would be a one and done villian. When has Ultron ever been one and done? Seriously just look at the number of reoccurring villains within the MCU. Loki, General Ross and maybe Mandarin (sorta), heck even Bucky is on a see saw.

[Mr Yac]

I think the best inclusion from the FF returning would not be in anything earth based, they have the richest cosmic characters in the entire Comic universe. never seeing Reed, Ben or Doom would be fine by me if the Skrulls, Kree, Galactus and all his Heralds stopped being blackballed

[BlueberryWaffles]

I can see the Invisible Woman variants now... Half invisible for normal, fully visible for HT, and fully invisible for SDCC.

Seriously though, could we see the return of 9" Pops for a Galactus? Pretty please Funko?

[Annabelle]

With Reed available for the MCU - and probably Namor too, if he was included in that deal - they're only a mutant representative away from having the Illuminati....

Bring on Planet Hulk!

[fistigons]

Let's make Dr Doom the new Thanos.

[vido-ardes]

You're about 85% right but let me correct a few points.

-The film rights at all the different studios are on leases. The studio has to have a new movie based on that property in production within X years to keep the rights. Fox let the rights lapse back to Marvel for the characters you mentioned, however Marvel didn't have to pay a penny to get those rights back.
-Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are both co owned by Marvel and Fox because they were equally prevalent in Avengers as they were in X-Men comics. Fox has chosen not to utilize Scarlet Witch but they could.
-Marvel was within months of getting Fantastic 4 back, those characters would have reverted to Marvel at about the same time as Daredevil, Ghost Rider, etc, however Fox didn't want to give up the FF so they decided to rush into production. Had it not actually started filming in time the rights would have reverted, I think they were within a month of the window closing. Marvel actually offered to Fox that they could keep the smaller characters in return for giving up rights to Silver surfer and Galactus. Marvel knew that Fantastic 4 would need those 2 characters in the long run and they desperately wanted the rights back.
-Spider-Man is now co owned by both Sony and Marvel and the reason for that is two-fold. 1) ASM2 got horrible critic and fan reviews, and 2) Sony as a company is having massive financial troubles (not the studio in particular, but the whole company). Sony was desperate so they decided to partner with Marvel.

Also worth noting is that the film rights were only leased out because otherwise Marvel was facing bankruptcy at the time. It really was the only option to stay afloat.

Sorry I hate to be "that guy", but I gotta make a correction to your correction.

WARNING: If you don't care about Marvel movie rights, look away.this is going to take a while... I know this isn't strictly Funko related, but it will hopefully try and explain the licensing problems!

Believe it or not this whole situation was a hell of a lot more confusing 5 years ago as licenses were handed out like candy in the 90's, but recently most of these have reverted to Marvel. Short story is Marvel was on the brink of bankruptcy and sold movie rights to Universal, Fox and Artisan for some much needed cash (Artisan being a tiny company with a fat wallet off the back of the success of the Blair Witch project).

Over the years they sold lots of movie license to lots of studios. Contrary to popular belief Fox didn't own tons of rights and they were spread all over the shop. Here is a quick history of all the licenses that were dished out:

• Republic Pictures made a Captain America film in 1944, but this doesn't really count as Marvel wasn't even known as Marvel then! (they were Timley Comics)
• Constantin Film had Fantastic Four (interesting story, they made an entire film and just before release Avi Arad purchased all copies and prints and had them destroyed as it was so bad!)
• Universal had Hulk and Namor (back to them later) and had Howard the Duck
• Fox had X-Men, Fantastic Four (shared with Constantin), Daredevil and Elektra
• Artisan Entertainment had Captain America, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Morbius, Longshot, Power Pack, Mort the Dead Teenager, Ant-Man, Punisher and Man-Thing
• New Line Cinema had Blade, Iron Man and Deadpool (purchased from Artisan)
• Lionsgate had Black Widow, Punisher , Iron-Fist and Man-Thing (all inherited the purchase of Artisan, I will come back to Man-Thing in a minute)
• Columbia had Black Panther (from Artisan)
• Sony had Spider-Man, Thor, Ghost Rider (in conjunction with Crystal Sky) and Luke Cage
• Dimension had Warewolf By Night and Dr. Strange
• Paramount had Deathlok

Sony still have Spider-Man, Fox have X-Men, Fantastic Four & Deadpool (purchased from New Line). Constantin Film still technically own the rights to Fantastic Four and co-produced and distributed the first 2 films, and is still involved with the reboot.

Lots of the above nearly went into production, Black Panther was going to be a spy film with Wesley Snipes and Ray Park was signed on to do Iron Fist. The above mostly reverted back to Marvel due to the lack of films surrounding the characters, except for Luke Cage which is believed to have been purchased back, and there are still some hangers on (more on that later). Fox tried to retain the rights to Daredevil too, but Marvel refused an extension. Once they were purchased by Disney in 2009, they were obviously keen to start making films and set about regaining as many licenses as they could, including any distribution rights. There is an infographic by the Geek Twins that does a good job of explaining the current state at a glance, but doesn't tell the whole story. Below is a list of the currently active licenses at other studios:

Sony
Sony still own all of the movie rights to Spider-Man, nothing has changed on that front. What Marvel have done is make a deal with them that allows them to use the characters in their movies, and exercise some creative control over the Sony movies in the sense they cannot do anything that conflicts the MCU storyline. Sony wholly own the movie rights and no money has exchanged hands. Marvel make no money from Sony's films, and the reverse is true for MCU films that contain spider man. There is potential for bonuses to be issues based on box office milestones, but these are tokenry. The other unknown is the extent of the deal and the characters it covers, it is entierly possible it limits Marvel to only using the Spider-Man character, and not any of the supporting cast, but at this point is all specualtion and probably subject to change. The only fact we know is that Marvel can use Spider-Man, this is not confimation that Norman Osbourne or Venom are going to start butting heads with Iron Man, and equally any Marvel charatcer outside of Sony's license will only appear in Sony's film when allowed on a case by case basis by Marvel (for example Iron man is rumored to appear in the Spider-Man standalone film).

Fox
The above explanation of Fox's situation is largely correct, but it is an incredibly complicated subject. They own the movie rights entirely for the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises. Unfortunately this causes more confusion than it clears up given how mixed up the Marvel comic universe is, and how the phrases "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" actually define very little. The contents of the deal between Marvel and Fox have never been disclosed so no-one outside those companies knows what it covers, there is a common assumption that first appearance in the comics determines the franchise but this is totally incorrect. Here are a few points to show just how unclear it is:

• Ulysses Klaue (Klaw), the Kree and Ronan the Accuser, and Black Panther all debuted in Fantastic Four comics but belong to Marvel Studios
• Rogue debuted in Avengers, Wolverine in Incredible Hulk, Mystique in Ms. Marvel, Sabretooth in Iron Fist, Viper in Captain America and Silver Samurai in Daredevil, all have been used in Fox's X-Men films. Equally Kang is primarily an Avengers bad guy, but movie rights belong to Fox

Ultimately the original deal probably wasn't as clear as it needed to be as no one at the time expected Marvel to start making it's own films, but I imagine there is either

• a) a list of characters the license covers and ones that were not explicitly mentioned live in a grey area (a la Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver; mutants, who aren't actually mutants any more, who are primarily Avengers, also appear in major X-Men stories e.t.c)
• b) Characters are not defined and everytime they want to make a film there is an argument between studios.

I imagine it is the former. A lot of people have decided that Marvel can;t use the term 'mutant' and have cited Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D show runner Maurissa Tancharoen for proof, but it is far more likley that Marvel have decided simply to not use the word (and subsequently ban it from the TV show) due to the fact that they can't use any of the characters. Despite the constant chatter that it is not allowed due to licensing, it is far more likely it is simply banned for creative reasons. It is known that other deals did list characters which saved them from other licenses by 'first appearance' rule, for example Kingpin was a Spider-Man villain but was packaged as part of the Daredevil license which recently reverted back to Marvel.

Universal
Namor is very confusing to define as he has been a part of every team under the sun... except that Universal own the rights to him specifically, but what is not clear is if they own the rights to supporting characters such as Namora and Namorita. Marvel have stated that while Universal can't actually make movies with him in anymore (presumably because the license expired), they can't either and are working on getting it back. Universal still own first refusal on the distribution rights for the Hulk, and did distribute the Edward Norton Hulk film (and got a nice chunk of change in the process). This is possibly why no other solo Hulk films have been produced.

Lionsgate
While Black widow and Punisher have clearly reverted to Marvel, Man-Thing is still a bit of a grey area. Until recently it was believed that Lionsgate still had the license, but they haven't made a film with him in since 2005 and also he has been mentioned in the MCU (both by Ellen Brandt in Iron Man 3 and Maria Hill in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D) so it is possible those rights are with Marvel.

Paramount
Worth a footnote, Paramount distributed Iron Man 1 & 2, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, and owned the distribution rights to the Avengers and Iron Man 3 but sold these back to Disney.

The above only goes to show how big of a mess things are, and highlights how the current licenses are still unclear. For example Miles Morales, a character created in 2011 couldn't be used by Marvel, but cannot have been included in the license with Sony as it was created in 1999. It throws doubt on characters like Adam Warlock, who debuted in Fantastic Four, and there are rumors that the Chithari were used in the Avengers instead of the Skrulls due to licensing, but the same was thought of the Kree until they turned up in Guardians of the Galaxy. The ninjas in 'The Wolverine' were likley to be 'The hand', but they wern't called that due to the fact that license went back to Marvel with Daredevil. It also highlights how studios can hang on to licenses (like Constantin) without actually doing anything for decades.

Needless to say, it's a bit of a mess.

TL;DR Marvel sold everything to everyone back in the 90's and since being bought by Disney is slowly clawing everything back. Fox and Sony are the only other studios that can produce films with Marvel characters in (barring possibly Lionsgate with Man-Thing), but who owns the rights to what characters is somewhat of a mystery, and neither Sony, Fox or Marvel are telling.

[Chase Variant]

A lot of people have decided that Marvel can;t use the term 'mutant' and have cited Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D show runner Maurissa Tancharoen for proof, but it is far more likley that Marvel have decided simply to not use the word (and subsequently ban it from the TV show) due to the fact that they can't use any of the characters. Despite the constant chatter that it is not allowed due to licensing, it is far more likely it is simply banned for creative reasons.

It's also possible that Marvel wants to avoid another lawsuit after the whole kerfuffle with Fox over the Mutant X TV show or that Fox has exclusive rights to that word following their settlement over that lawsuit.

[Jeggy]

I'm out of town for the weekend, and I was fortunate to find Agent Carter and the Xforce Deadpool truck. Agent Carter really is a good looking Pop. One of the better ones.

[schmidthappens27]

B&N SDCC Exclusives are definitely being restocked. Grabbed myself and Unmasked Captain America today!

[natasha_romanov_85]

B&N SDCC Exclusives are definitely being restocked. Grabbed myself and Unmasked Captain America today!

Thanks for the heads up, I'm overseas so ordered it from B&N.com, but I'm stoked I finally got my hands on this for a reasonable price, even if the shipping was nearly as much as the actual funko.

[thethrill909]

Just ordered X-Force Deadpool off of Hot Topics website. Apparently they got more in online for anyone who wants one it says almost gone.

[zOnesTarX]

Nice! ^ ^

[dboneo]

Just got charged for my amazon unmasked iron man.

[Jeggy]

Still waiting on unmasked Iron Man to come back in stock.

Did anyone actually receive a box with a sticker? I'm seeing most if not all got boxes with no stickers.

[leecifer83]

Still waiting on unmasked Iron Man to come back in stock.

Did anyone actually receive a box with a sticker? I'm seeing most if not all got boxes with no stickers.

I'm seeing the same thing.. one person. Said they got a refund and got to keep the pop because of it.